Replication of "Cultivating Rice and Votes: Institutional Origins of Agricultural Protectionism in Japan" (Yusaku Horiuchi, Jun Saito), Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 10, No 3, pp. 425-452, September-December 2010.  

* Description: We explore in this article an institutional foundation of agricultural protectionism in Japan, a country long recognized as resisting international pressures to open up its rice market. Using our qualitative analysis of postwar politics of agricultural protectionism and a simple formal model, we argue that farmers in Japan have stronger incentives to mobilize electoral support for the governing party in multimember district systems than in single-member district systems, because the marginal effects of mobilization on policy benefits are different under these electoral systems. Our empirical findings corroborate this claim and provide implications for the gradual changes in Japan’s farm policies occurring after the electoral reform in 1994.

* Files included in this package

- ReadMe.txt (this file)
- ReadMe_Codebook.PDF (The Codebook for Original Data Files, in Japanese)
- jeas2010_1_prepare.do (Stata do file, Step 1)
- jeas2010_2_analysis.do (Stata do file, Step 2)
- jeas2010_LowerHouse.dta (Stata data file, 1)- jeas2010_UpperHouse.dta (Stata data file, 2)- jeas2010_ReplicationData_L.dta (Stata data file - generated after running jeas2010_1_prepare.do)
- jeas2010_ReplicationData_U.dta (Stata data file - generated after running jeas2010_1_prepare.do)
- jeas2010_ReplicationData_L.csv (CSV file - generated after running jeas2010_1_prepare.do)- jeas2010_ReplicationData_U.csv (CSV file - generated after running jeas2010_1_prepare.do)
- jeas2010_Output_U.log (log file - generated after running jeas2010_2_analysis.do)
- jeas2010_Output_L.log (log file - generated after running jeas2010_2_analysis.do)* Program: Stata Version 13.1

* Additional programs required: none

* Process of Replication:
	(1) Place all files in the same folder
	(2) Run jeas2010_1_prepare.do. It generates replication data files (Stata and CSV)
	(3) Run jeas2010_2_analysis.do

* Most Recent Data of Successful Replication: January 21, 2018

* Data Description (See the paper for details; check the do file on how to generate variables used in this paper)

Contains data from jeas2010_ReplicationData_L.dta
  obs:           799                          
 vars:            34                          7 Mar 2015 12:23
 size:        58,327                          
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              storage   display    value
variable name   type    format     label      variable label
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pcode           byte    %8.0g                 Prefecture Code
L0              byte    %8.0g                 Election ID
L1              byte    %9.0g                 Number of Seats
gpvs            float   %9.0g                 Government Party [Relative] Vote Share
rdr             float   %9.0g                 Rice Damage Ratio
agr             float   %9.0g                 Agricultural Workers Ratio
smd             byte    %9.0g                 SMD Dummy
smd2            float   %9.0g                 Number of candidates / Number of seats
rdr_agr         float   %9.0g                 rdr (times) agr
rdr_smd         float   %9.0g                 rdr (times) smd
rdr_smd_agr     float   %9.0g                 rdr (times) smd (times) agr
smd_agr         float   %9.0g                 smd (times) agr
apf             float   %9.0g                 Acreage Per Farmer
nspv            float   %9.0g                 Number of Seats Per Vote
p               float   %9.0g                 Population
apr             float   %9.0g                 Aged Population Ratio
dpr             float   %9.0g                 DID Population Ratio
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Sorted by:  pcode  L0

Contains data from jeas2010_ReplicationData_U.dta
  obs:           845                          
 vars:            34                          7 Mar 2015 12:23
 size:        59,150                          
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              storage   display    value
variable name   type    format     label      variable label
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pcode           byte    %8.0g                 Prefecture Code
U0              byte    %8.0g                 Election ID
U1              byte    %8.0g                 Number of Seats
gpvs            float   %9.0g                 Government Party [Relative] Vote Share
rdr             float   %9.0g                 Rice Damage Ratio
agr             float   %9.0g                 Agricultural Workers Ratio
smd             byte    %9.0g                 SMD Dummy
rdr_agr         float   %9.0g                 rdr (times) agr
rdr_smd         float   %9.0g                 rdr (times) smd
rdr_smd_agr     float   %9.0g                 rdr (times) smd (times) agr
smd_agr         float   %9.0g                 smd (times) agr
apf             float   %9.0g                 Acreage Per Farmer
nspv            float   %9.0g                 Number of Seats Per Vote
p               float   %9.0g                 Population
apr             float   %9.0g                 Aged Population Ratio
dpr             float   %9.0g                 DID Population Ratio
ele_4           byte    %9.0g                 
ele_5           byte    %9.0g                 
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Sorted by:  pcode  U0
